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This course examines the tradition of the documentary film, considering its historical development, changing presentational strategies and the ways in which it inevitably intertwines evidence and argument. Mode of Inquiry: Analyzing Arguments, Reasons and Values Offering: Fall Instructor: Nolley
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This course is a study of origins of African American literary and vernacular tradition. Formal and Thematic analysis of this tradition in 18th century and Antebellum America (with some examination of Britain). A goal is to understand the influence of this tradition on form and focus on contemporary African American Writers. Prerequisite: Previous 100- or 200- level English course. Offering: Alternate years Instructor: Staff
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A study of modern/contemporary literature written by African-Americans. Formal and thematic analysis of the novel with secondary examples from folktale, lyric and drama. Prerequisite: A 100- or 200-level English course in literature Offering: Alternate years Instructor: Staff
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A study of Shakespeare's comic drama "the farces, romantic comedies, comic histories, problem comedies and romances" giving particular attention to the evolution of Shakespeare's comic vision and craft. Prerequisite: A 100- or 200-level English course in literature Offering: Spring Instructor: Moon
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A detailed study of Shakespeare's tragic drama, illustrating his development from the early plays of the genre into the mature craftsmanship of his later period. Prerequisite: A 100- or 200-level English course in literature Offering: Fall Instructor: L. Bowers
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Study of the works of a major author (such as Milton, Faulkner, Joyce). Consideration of significant influences, development of literary style and vision through consideration of the author's primary texts; critical appraisal of influence on later authors; survey of major criticism to the present. May be repeated for credit with focus on a different author. Prerequisite: A 100- or 200-level English course in literature Offering: Fall Instructor: Staff
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A study of Chaucer in Middle English, including the entire Canterbury Tales and a selection from the short poems and dream visions. Extensive secondary reading establishes Chaucer's context in the 14th century; examines the Classical, French, Italian, and English literary influences on his work; and proposes various theoretical approaches to interpretation in the 21st century. Prerequisite: 100- or 200-level English course in literature Offering: Alternate odd years in fall Instructor: Moon
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This course introduces students to English poetry written in the 16th and 17th centuries. Exploration of this literary period and genre will attend to topics like the development of the sonnet cycle in English; the growth of English courtier culture and the rise of poetry as a profession; the role of women poets in responding to and complicating a traditionally male-dominated poetic canon; poetry as expression of religious devotion and in ecclesiastical politics; the employment of poetry to negotiate private, erotic desire and public, political authority. Prerequisite: 100- or 200-level literature course. Offering: Alternate falls Instructor: Hobgood, Moon
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Study of the development of the novel in Britain, from Restoration-era spiritual autobiography, fable, and romance to Jane Austen's psychological realism. Attention to questions of form, genre, and canon-formation, as well as the novel's intervention in debates about courtship, domesticity, and female authorship, middle-class individualism and national community, reason and feeling, empiricism and enchantment, and the social value of reading.Prerequisite: A 100- or 200-level English course in literature Offering: Alternate years Instructor: Menely
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A study of the continuing development of the novel in English from the nineteenth century to the present. Attention to formal characteristics of the genre, including narrative structure and characterization, and to literary movements such as sentimentalism, realism, naturalism, modernism, and postmodernism. Consideration of the novel as an expression or cultural, political, and economic contexts. Prerequisite: A 100- or 200-level course in literature Offering: Alternate years Instructor: Michel, Nolley, Strelow
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